MELENCHON PROGRAM – A few days before the first round of the 2022 presidential election, we take stock of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s program, with a summary of the key measures of the candidate of La France insoumise.
Like Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a candidate for the third consecutive time in the presidential election. Question: are there any notable developments in its program this year? While the candidate of La France insoumise had reset the counters to zero in 2017 compared to 2012, wishing to show another image of him and “learned the lessons” of the 2012 campaign, Jean-Luc Mélenchon this time seems more register in continuity.
Compared to 2017, several proposals are coming back, such as the increase in the minimum wage or the creation of a Sixth Republic. This program was “co-written by thousands of citizens, it was chosen by seven million voters in 2017 and has been updated to take into account three years of social mobilizations and parliamentary work”, it is indicated on the campaign website by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, where it is also possible to find all the proposals made so far. Here are some of them:
- The LFI candidate indicates that he wants to put “social” at the heart of his campaign. “We have emergency security laws, emergency health laws: it is time to have a social emergency law“, he insisted in an interview granted to the JDD on September 11. This social emergency law includes “the freezing of prices on basic necessities, the increase of the minimum wage to 1,400 euros net and the postponement repayment of state-guaranteed loans.
- On the pension reform, the candidate of La France Insoumise (LFI) detailed what methods he could put in place to finance the payment of a full pension (at least equivalent to the Smic) to any employee who has contributed for 40 years. The candidate proposed three solutions on BFM Business on November 4. “We only have to put the salary of women at the level of that of men and social security contributions will pay the difference”, he first explained. As an alternative, he proposes to create “one million more jobs”: “If there are one million more jobs, we finance retirement at age 60 in 40 annuities”, he underlined in particular . Third track: “A two-point surcharge on all salaries above 3,400 euros”. The LFI candidate also justified the extent to which this aspect of his program was fundamental: “You know like me that working too long is harmful to health and that harming health increases distress in personal life, increases illness, increases unemployment of seniors which today costs 3 billion. In other words, what you have not paid in retirement, you pay it in unemployment, the big deal.
- On the health and vaccination pass, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has positioned himself as a fervent opponent. “We oppose the health pass because it is an attack on freedom in the world of work, in society, in human relations” he had launched at the end of August. During his interview with the JDD, the deputy returned to his rejection of the pass: “To make believe that its holders no longer present a danger to others, that’s false! But the health pass creates a society of generalized control. Generalized filing , absurd inopportune controls, etc. I said it in all tones and I voted against”.
- L’Insoumis defends the national sovereignty and, in terms of European policy, he wishes to “restore it, based on two essential clauses: social, ecological and democratic non-regression, and alignment with the best-priced standards”. He explains that he wants to “use the opt-out clause (disengagement, in French, editor’s note) when the treaties are contrary to the commitments of the program”.